Scalia: Court’s Decision Restoring Habeas ‘Will Almost Certainly Cause More Americans To Be Killed’


	Scalia: Court’s Decision Restoring Habeas ‘Will Almost Certainly Cause More Americans To Be Killed’

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6-13-2008 4:42 PM

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6-13-2008 8:48 PM

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But many of these prisoners have not been shown to be "radical Islamists."

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